Collaborative Research: Property, Power, and Gender-based Violence

SES-0921537谢莉·格雷伯加州大学圣克鲁斯分校SES-0921507玛拉·戈德曼科罗拉多大学博尔德分校家庭暴力在国际上被认为是一个严重的公共卫生问题，对妇女的福祉有着严重的影响。与此同时，与艾滋病毒/艾滋病有关的风险增加了，特别是在撒哈拉以南非洲的妇女中。 拟议的研究是一项侧重于理论的实证调查，旨在通过审查男女之间土地所有权的系统性差异是否造成结构性不平等，从而了解暴力侵害妇女行为的社会过程，这种不平等导致东非妇女家庭暴力和艾滋病毒感染率高得惊人。 目标是在一个家庭暴力和妇女感染艾滋病毒风险问题严重的未得到充分研究的地区，就土地所有权在预防暴力侵害妇女行为方面的作用进行跨学科研究。 在东非，土地所有权和控制权是权力和支配地位的标志，重要的是，坦桑尼亚的新立法通过主张妇女拥有土地的权利，挑战了传统的性别意识形态。由于暴力是一个社会问题，要减少暴力侵害妇女行为，就必须改变使性别权力不平衡长期存在的社会结构和性别意识形态。 这项研究将采用准实验性纵向设计，并采用深入的定性方法，以加强大规模的定量调查数据，从而调查土地所有权是否为支持和维持暴力侵害妇女行为提供了一个潜在的结构。 美国社会科学和行为科学提出的理论和方法完全可以在国际机构呼吁消除对妇女歧视和更好地理解赋权过程的确切领域进行高质量的科学研究。这种合作促进了不同但互补的概念和方法论观点的整合，以更全面地了解使性别暴力制度永久化的社会文化机制。更广泛的影响。 拟议的研究有几个更广泛的影响。 首先，这笔赠款将汇集来自美国和坦桑尼亚的研究人员，从而促进必要的国际和跨学科合作，以开展这一范围的研究项目。 在美国的社会科学研究持有重大的承诺，在理解社会行为，如全球对妇女的暴力行为取得突破。 第二，促进社会科学领域的国际合作将促进有效的研究工作，从而在符合联合国千年发展目标的领域产生持久影响，以促进性别平等并赋予妇女权力。 在许多国家，巨大的变化发生得如此之快，研究人员必须迅速采取行动，如果他们要收集对理解这些变化至关重要的信息。 第三，初级研究人员在具有全球重要性的及时领域的合作旨在确保未来一代研究人员在跨学科，合作国际研究方面的专家。

SES-0921537Shelly GrabeUniversity of California-Santa CruzSES-0921507Mara GoldmanUniversity of Colorado-BoulderDomestic violence is recognized internationally as a serious public health problem with grave implications for the well-being of women. At the same time risks associated with HIV/AIDS have increased particularly among women across Sub-Saharan Africa. The proposed research is a theoretically focused empirical investigation aimed at understanding the social process of violence against women by examining whether systematic differences in land ownership between men and women create structural inequalities that contribute to the alarmingly high rates of domestic violence and HIV infection among women in East Africa. The goal is to pursue interdisciplinary research on the role of land ownership in the prevention of violence against women in an understudied region where the problems of domestic violence and HIV risk among women are acute. In East Africa, land ownership and control is a sign of power and dominance and, importantly, new legislation in Tanzania challenges traditional gender ideology by asserting women's rights to own land. Since violence represents a societal problem, reducing violence against women requires changes in social structures and gender ideologies that perpetuate gendered power imbalances. The study will employ a quasi-experimental, longitudinal design with in-depth qualitative methods to reinforce large-scale quantitative survey data in order to investigate whether land ownership provides one potential structure by which violence against women is supported and sustained. The theories and methodologies put forth by U.S. social and behavioral sciences are well positioned to permit high-quality scientific research in the exact areas of which international bodies are calling for the elimination of discrimination against women and a better understanding of empowerment processes. This collaboration facilitates the integration of different, but complimentary, conceptual and methodological perspectives to more fully understand the sociocultural mechanisms that perpetuate a system of gender-based violence.Broader Impacts. The proposed research has several broader impacts. First, the grant would bring together researchers from the U.S. and Tanzania, thereby facilitating the necessary international and interdisciplinary collaboration to conduct a research project of this scope. Research in the social sciences within the U.S. holds significant promise for making breakthroughs in understanding social behaviors such as violence against women globally. Second, promotion of international cooperation across the social sciences will foster effective research efforts that can achieve a lasting impact in areas consistent with the U.N. Development Millennium Goals to Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women. Tremendous changes are occurring so rapidly in many nations that researchers must move quickly if they are to collect information crucial for understanding them. Third, the collaboration of junior researchers in a timely area of global importance is aimed at securing a future generation of researchers expert in interdisciplinary, collaborative international research.